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Ajouter une intrigue dans votre langueA cello case becomes an instrument of terror for a photographer convinced he murdered his cheating wife. Chinese film star Ge You (Butterfly Smile) is the schizophrenic haunted by the case, ... Tout lireA cello case becomes an instrument of terror for a photographer convinced he murdered his cheating wife. Chinese film star Ge You (Butterfly Smile) is the schizophrenic haunted by the case, which he may have used to dispose of his wife's corpse. The lines between the subconscious... Tout lireA cello case becomes an instrument of terror for a photographer convinced he murdered his cheating wife. Chinese film star Ge You (Butterfly Smile) is the schizophrenic haunted by the case, which he may have used to dispose of his wife's corpse. The lines between the subconscious and conscious, the dead and the living, horrifically blur in this intense, atmospheric ps... Tout lire

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5,7/10

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- 1 nomination au total

Générique farfelu
Title card before start of film: "The human conscious mind is like the part of the iceberg above the sea, while the subconscious is like the body of the iceberg underneath." - Sigmund Freud

Bandes originales
Konzert fuer Gemischten Chor
Lyrics by Grigor Narekatsi (as Gregor Narekatsi)
Music by Alfred Schnittke (as Alfred Schnittke)
Performed by the State Chamber Choir of the U.S.S.R.

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6/10

Could have been so much better.

I saw this during the Gotenburg Film Festival. Apparently horror films are not really permitted in mainland China so Bingjian Zhang tries to get around this by making a horror film which is not really a horror film at all, rather a Freudian fantasy where you really don't know where the dreams end and reality begins. Sounds weird? Well, you'll get it :)

Visually it's a very beautiful film with stunning images although it's a little too obvious the underwater scenes are shot in a pool. But none the less it's filled with impressive scenes with lots of water, rain and dramatically lit fog.

Unfortunately the film fails miserably being a horror film (or as the poster claimed "Chinas first psycho movie"). It is, by western standards, not even remotely scary. The few scenes that actually gave me any real "gut feeling" were to few and too far apart to create any real atmosphere in the film. And without that you cant really care for the characters and their feelings either.

Maybe I should blame the Chinese censorship instead of the director. But no matter what the cause this films weakest point is that it's way too tame. If it would have had that paranoid feeling like for example "the Machinist" had and succeeded in giving the audience a real taste of the characters fears and paranoia it would have been an instant 9 but without that key ingredient I can't give it more than 6/10.